While 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times' wasn't written about co-living with a flatmate, we think the phrase captures the essence of living with one just perfectly.
Living with a roommate certainly has its benefits. You'll never feel lonely (even if you want to), you'll always have somebody to talk to (even if they don't want to), and you get to share the chores (even though there are usually at least twice as many of them). But as you can see from this hilarious list of roommate pranks compiled by Bored Panda, cohousing can also have its downside. From such insidiously funny pranks as clowns in the toilet and sharks in the bath to tinfoil wrapped beds and gift-wrapped bedrooms, the best pranks you can find below will remind you that living with people can result in some of the best - or the worst - years of your life. Don't forget to vote for these funny stories!
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My Housemate Said He Was Going Out To Buy A Mouse Trap... This Is What He Returned With
Left A Romantic Surprise For My Roommate
Went To Defrost The Freezer. Seems My Roommate Has Been Having Some Fun
Woke Up, Half Asleep, Opened The Door To The Bathroom And My Heart Dropped Down To My Balls. Well Played, Roommate
Friends Pranked Me By Converting My Bedroom Into A Utility Closet While I Was Out Of Town
My Housemate Has To Get Up At 4am For A Train. I'll Just Leave This Snowman Here
My Friend Works At A Movie Theater And Can Take The Cardboard Cutouts. I Have An Irreconcilable Fear Of Sharks. She Decided To Use Her Spare Key Privileges To Terrify Me Beyond Repair
When i returned from a home visit once i took my mannequin "Bruce" with me. He is huge and black (no offence). I placed him right behind the entrance door and when my housemate returned in the middle of the night it scared the s**t out of him. I woke up from him screaming like a lunatic. For a second i felt really bad but then we laughed both so hard. Good times...
My Roommate Is A Asshole, After Setting Off Security Alarms At The Doors Of Almost Every Store I Went To For 6 Months I Finally Found This Hidden In My Wallet
Lost My Keys, Room Mate Offers To Replace Them And I Get These
My Roommate Went To Australia For A Few Months, So We Walled Off His Room
I Told My Roommate He Was Putting The TP On Backwards And Then I Find This
My Roommate Is Afraid Of Clowns
OH SWEET JESUS! I'd pee my pants seeing that. On the upside, since I pees my pants I wont need to use that toilet anymore
Next thing you know, the clown is in the laundry machine. ^_-
Load More Replies...When I first read the title, I thought it said cows instead of clowns XD "My Roommate Is Afraid Of Cows"
Now only if it had a light somewhere on it to make it blink or something lol
My sister (we shared a room) collected ceramic clowns when I was young, so they don't bother me. I learned to sleep with them staring at me!
Load More Replies...My Roommate's A B*tch. I Thought I Was Being Shot At
I Got A Mannequin. My Roommates Are Going To Love It
My Roommate Gave Me The Rent Money Today
My Roommate's Pranks Are Subtle, But Powerful
Made For My Roommate
Just Got This Key Cut For My 6'6", 250 Pound, Black Male Roommate
Thought My Roommate Was Bringing A Girl Home Tonight, So Naturally I Did This To His Bedroom
A Random Number Sent Me A Pic Of My Roommate Wasted With His Pants Pissed So I Turned It Into A Coffee Cup So He Has To See It Every Day
Roommate Passed Out Early At A Party
That is indeed a feat of design and engineering! Props to the roommate for being such a reliable foundation.
Thanks For The Idea. Roommate Comes Home From Vacation Tomorrow
My Roommate Is 27 Years Old And This Is How I Find Out We're Out Of Toilet Paper
My Roommate Moved Out Five Months Ago; Only Today Did We Discover His "Surprise." After Sending Him A Confused Text, He Replied By Saying "You Found It! My Secret 'Stache'! "
This Guy Turns His Roommate’s Mess Into A “passive-Aggressive Art Gallery”
My Roommate Went Away For The Week. He Now Has A Hello Kitty Computer
Roommates
It probably took more work to print this off than to do the few dishes in the sink ... but if they were smart and laminated it then it could be used again and again
Bought A Creepy Mask Recently. Friend Wanted To Borrow It To Scare His Roommate. He Put This Together Before He Left For Spring Break For His Roommate To Find
The Prank War
Live With 2 Girls Who Are Afraid Of Their Own Shadows, Left This In Their Bathroom With The Door Shut
Made This Guy Out Of Our Housemates Clothes And Set Him Up In His Bathroom. I've Never Heard A Grown Man Scream So Much
My Roommate Is An Asshole
My Roommate Doesn't Realize That I, Too, Can Print To His Wireless Printer
My Roommate Asked Me To Make Signs For Her Garage Sale Tomorrow
So A Housemate Left Without Saying Bye, I Found This In His Room
If some of these clowns put half as much effort into doing something constructive as they do into pranking their roomies, they'd be millionaires.
I could have used the fridge locker. I had a roommate that worked at Safeway and ate my food continually. Right before I moved out I made a pie with ipecac and exlax in it and left it for her. Payback for the $200 bottle of wine my boss gave me as a wedding present - that she stole and drank.
Lesson I learned today: Roommates' short life span is only redeemed by their creativity when revenge/new prank is needed.
Repetitive and unoriginal in the main. A few were funny, most were lame and wasteful and a couple were pretty much simple bullying.
This gave me some good ideas on what I am going to do to my roommate
In high school, I took ceramics where there was a raku unit (it's a firing technique where the clay ends up black and the glaze has a crackled look). I made a full face mask with white glaze- it turned out perfectly (aka creepy). It scared the c**p out of my sister. So of course I had to hang it up so it was just visible around corners and looked like it was staring at whoever was sitting at the piano. Finally, it somehow managed to fall and break so it was wedged behind the piano (which was a different wall)
Someone did the clown or the Shmegal prank to me I would probably kill them .
I was expecting bad room mates. Like ones who never wash the dishes or clean. but these were funny though.
If some of these clowns put half as much effort into doing something constructive as they do into pranking their roomies, they'd be millionaires.
I could have used the fridge locker. I had a roommate that worked at Safeway and ate my food continually. Right before I moved out I made a pie with ipecac and exlax in it and left it for her. Payback for the $200 bottle of wine my boss gave me as a wedding present - that she stole and drank.
Lesson I learned today: Roommates' short life span is only redeemed by their creativity when revenge/new prank is needed.
Repetitive and unoriginal in the main. A few were funny, most were lame and wasteful and a couple were pretty much simple bullying.
This gave me some good ideas on what I am going to do to my roommate
In high school, I took ceramics where there was a raku unit (it's a firing technique where the clay ends up black and the glaze has a crackled look). I made a full face mask with white glaze- it turned out perfectly (aka creepy). It scared the c**p out of my sister. So of course I had to hang it up so it was just visible around corners and looked like it was staring at whoever was sitting at the piano. Finally, it somehow managed to fall and break so it was wedged behind the piano (which was a different wall)
Someone did the clown or the Shmegal prank to me I would probably kill them .
I was expecting bad room mates. Like ones who never wash the dishes or clean. but these were funny though.